The Israeli Military has been describing it as a targeted, localised limited incursion so far. We had some details from a senior israeli Security Official, saying that these are local raids, very limited in scope, in the area, so no crashes happening so no clashes happening at the moment between israeli forces and hezbollah fighters in the south according to this senior israeli official. Obviously hezbollah has remained defiant. Yesterday, we heard from the Groups Number two who said that hezbollah fighters were ready to confront any israeli invasion. This is a part of the country that is a hezbollah stronghold. Obviously after two weeks of widespread israeli Air Strikes, high profile assassinations, hezbollah has been weakened, its leadership has been almost completely decimated, but the group remains a very powerful force. It is believed to have thousands of rockets, including missiles that can strike deep inside israel, also thousands of experienced fighters. So there is here the qu
Just hours after World Leaders at the united nations called for a 21 day ceasefire. These are the latest pictures were getting from lebanon. The idf says strikes happened in beqqa, close to the syrian border, and Southern Lebanon, and targeted weapons depots, rocket launchers, and military buildings. Israel says it has struck more than 2000 hezbollah targets in lebanon over the past few days. The lebanese Health Ministry said more than 70 people were killed by israeli Air Strikes on wednesday 00v allies including the us, uk and eu issued a joint statement for a pause in the fighting for what they said would provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement and a ceasefire in gaza. It follows a meeting at the Un General Assembly in new york. Yair lapid, leader of Israels Opposition Party yesh atid, says israel should accept the ceasefire proposal, but only for seven days. But its a view not shared by bezalel smotrich, the far right minister of finance in Benj
The Victory Plan that president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will present to the White House tomorrow, has been kept largely under wraps untilJoe Biden has seen it. But some elements of the plan have been briefed, including the need for more timely decisions from western allies. The us president is still lingering on his decision as to whether the longer Range Atacm missiles can be used on targets inside russia. Today at the general assembly in New York, zelenskyy was Exhorting The International Community not to forget ukraine or the dangers of a nuclear disaster that russia poses inside his country. Now, putin does seem to be Planning Attacks on our nuclear power plants and their infrastructure, on our nuclear power plants and infrastructure, aiming to disconnect the plants from the power grid. Any missile or drone strike, any critical incident in the Energy System could lead to a nuclear disaster. A day like that must never come. And moscow needs to understand this and this depends in part on
Volodymyr zelensky has accused the west of emboldenIng VladImIr PutIn wIth Its hesItatIon over long range mIssIles. PresIdent bIden and SIr KeIr Starmer had met to decIde whether to allow kyIv to use Storm Shadow mIssIles agaInst targets InsIde russIa. I dont thInk much about VladImIr PutIn. DespIte thIs put down there Is stIll a cautIous approach and no offIcIal change In polIcy. ThIs wasnt a meetIng about a partIcular capabIlIty, that wasnt why we got our heads down today. It was to allow ourselves the space, whIch we took, and the tIme, whIch we took, to have a strategIc dIscussIon. These long range mIssIles are at the heart of the talks. The uk already supplIes Storm Shadows to ukraIne, but only for use wIthIn ukraIne. The comIng weeks could see that the change wIth them beIng allowed to be fIred Into russIa at mIlItary InstallatIons. Some mIlItary observers say UkraIne IsjustIfIed In wantIng to stop the attacks at source. Now, what may happen here Is some of us may get loosened up